starting of the server (and client/server communication behavior during start and daemonize) completely rewritten:

  - client/server functionality moved away from bin and using now the common interface (introduced in fail2bancmdline);
  - start in foreground fixed;
  - server can act as client corresponding command line;
  - command "restart" added: in opposite to "reload" in reality restarts the server (new process);
  - several client/server bugs during starting process fixed.

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# emacs: -*- mode: python; py-indent-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+# vi: set ft=python sts=4 ts=4 sw=4 noet :
+
+# This file is part of Fail2Ban.
+#
+# Fail2Ban is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Fail2Ban is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Fail2Ban; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+
+"""
+Fail2Ban reads log file that contains password failure report
+and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
+
+This tools starts/stops fail2ban server or does client/server communication,
+to change/read parameters of the server or jails.
+
+"""
+
+__author__ = "Fail2Ban Developers"
+__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2012-2014 Yaroslav Halchenko, 2014-2016 Serg G. Brester"
+__license__ = "GPL"
+
+from fail2ban.client.fail2banclient import exec_command_line
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	exec_command_line()